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	<title>PLAINTEXT: Browser Peculiarities: Displaying all characters literally</title>
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<big><b><u>Assertion:</u></b></big>
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<li>All Opera versions, IE4+, and Netscape up to version 6.0 support the original 
    PLAINTEXT specification which did not accept a closing tag.
<li>Internet Explorer up to version 3, Netscape 6.1+ and all Mosaic versions 
    provide for a closing tag. A closing tag would allow placement in regions 
    other than the end of a HTML document. 
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<b>Plain PLAINTEXT element, with nested B element (It should be fairly evident if parsing stops beyond the end tag):</b>
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<plaintext>plaintext <b>NESTED BOLD ELEMENT</b>, character entity: &amp; plaintext</plaintext> 
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